Just like Thai cuisine, Thai massages are known around the world! Well-being in Thailand is taken very seriously, much to the delight of fans of these treatments. Here, plants purify and regenerate the body and the spirit. What seems to be a trend in the Western world has existed in Thailand for centuries. Modern medicine is often set aside to make way for remedies created by herbalists. Traditional Thai medicine is based on the four elements (water, wind, earth and fire) and explains that a disease appears when the balance among them is broken.